Robert Macfarlane on nature, language, and music
Life Examined
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Underland - The Underworld Story
Underland is essentially unfinishable, but that's because i'm dealing n i'm nated by where matter meets metaphor. The underworld is not just where we gain our raw materials from, where our natural disasters erupt from. It's this unbiddable, scarcely known, a sort of deep, deep realm that we walk on every we walk on the crust. Our feet are the things that keep us in contact with the earth. We can look up and see the light of a star that's travelled billions of years toor billions of miles to reach us. But we look down and we can't see past the grass blade, past the ptarmax. So, you know,
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